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Offers outstanding accounts in Twitter to penetrate

Mar

16

2017

because of the application of a third party!
Been several accounts of personalities and brands destinations prominent in the social network Twitter, on Wednesday, to penetration, and used to publish Tweets included messages carried in the Turkish language and som prompt to Nazi Germany and the Netherlands.

Company Twitter has made clear it has identified the cause of the breach, a third party application, called “Twitter counter” Twitter Counter, was used by accounts that have been infiltrated in the analysis and to obtain statistics.

It said the company, in a statement formally, that the breach of third – party application allowed the hackers to control a small number of users of social network accounts, and noted that it has swift action on its part to treat the cause of the breach and restore control of the breached accounts.

And allowed to penetrate the application of the third party, “Twitter counter,” control of hackers on outstanding accounts such as Amnesty International’s expense, and the expense of UNICEF America, and the calculation of Mayor French city of Bordeaux, and the calculation continued to Forbes magazine, and the expense of Duke University in the US, the Netherlands and the account of the organization War Child War Child, and the calculation of the Berlin Philharmonic, and an account held by the British Ministry of Health and another belonging to the BBC and another belonging to sign the Starbucks brand.

It is believed that the process of penetration and widespread that relationship nervously recent diplomatic relations between Turkey on the one hand and Germany and the Netherlands on the other hand, after the Netherlands refused to allow ministers Turks to take part in rallies in support of the Turkish Prime Recep Tayyip Erdogan on its territory, in order to gather votes in a referendum reinforces the powers of Erdogan.

It included tweets pro phrases to attack Turkey and the Netherlands, and Germany, and messages like “See you in April 16,” probably referring to the date of the referendum to strengthen the powers of the Turkish president.

The Twitter deleted all the powers of the application “Twitter Counter” on the social network to close the door to continued control of hackers on the accounts that you are using, as the company confirmed that there is no need for any action by the user to delete the application permissions, but that social network users are still unable to remove the application Permissions or any other third party application through the list of applications in their account settings.